CitizenCast

Your City Defined — Street Sweeping

As it turns out, the moniker "Filthadelphia" stretches all the way back to the 1900s. CitizenCast takes a look back at our storied history of keeping—or not—Philadelphia streets clean

CitizenCast

Your City Defined — Street Sweeping

As it turns out, the moniker "Filthadelphia" stretches all the way back to the 1900s. CitizenCast takes a look back at our storied history of keeping—or not—Philadelphia streets clean

BY J.P. Romney

Apr. 26, 2018

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In 1919 mayoral candidate J. Hampton Moore ran on the platform “The city must clean its own streets!” Almost one-hundred years later Mayor Jim Kenney ran on the same platform. So what happened?

J.P. Romney takes a look back at the city’s historical challenges in keeping our streets clean. Listen below:

 

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